File #: 12-0667    Version: 1 Name: Restaurants - Hours of Operation.
Type: Ordinance Status: Filed
File created: 3/14/2012 In control: Municipal Council and City Clerk
On agenda: 3/21/2012 Final action: 4/4/2012
Title: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 8, CHAPTER 12 HOURS OF OPERATION (8:12-6A, OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEWARK NEW JERSEY, AS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED (Restaurants)
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 8, CHAPTER 12 HOURS OF OPERATION (8:12-6A, OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEWARK NEW JERSEY, AS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED (Restaurants)
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      WHEREAS, the Newark, Municipal Council wishes to amend the regulations which govern the hours of operations for restaurants within the City of Newark.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
Section 2.      Title 8, Chapter 12, Section 6A, HOURS OF OPERATION, of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Newark, County of Essex, New Jersey, shall be amended as follows:
8:12-6A.      HOURS OF OPERATION.
a.      All restaurants (that are not defined herein as a drive-in or drive thru restaurant), and Retail Sales and Retail Service Establishments, as defined herein, and located on streets as set foth herein shall not conduct business during the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M., Sunday through Thursday and 11:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. on Friday and Saturday.  Such businesses located within the
 
boundaries of the Improvement District listed below are exempt from the application of this ordinance.
      Newark Downtown Special Improvement District (map attached)
      Ironbound Business Improvement District (map attached)
      Mt. Prospect Avenue Neighborhood Special Improvement District (map attached)
      This provision of this ordinance shall be applicable in any and all Special Improvement Districts that might be created in the future.
b.      The restriction upon business hours imposed by subsection (a) shall not apply to pharmacies or holders of plenary retail distribution licenses under the Alcohol Beverage Law, N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq; except that the holders of such licenses may not conduct any business between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. other than as permitted by N.J.S.A. 33:1-40.3 and other applicable City Ordinances.
 
Businesses to be closed during certain hours: exceptions
Name of Street            From                  To
Bergen Street                  Avon Avenue            Weequahic Avenue
Clinton Avenue                          South 20th Street      Elizabeth Avenue
Clinton Place                  Clinton Avenue            Weequahic Avenue
Lyons Avenue                  Fabyan Place            Elizabeth Avenue
Chancellor Avenue            Fabyan Place            Maple Avenue
Maple Avenue                  Hansbury Avenue      Chancellor Avenue
Hawthorne Avenue            Fabyan Place            Bergen Street      
Madison Avenue            South 18th Street      Irvine Turner Boulevard
Elizabeth Avenue            Watson Avenue       Grumman Avenue
Elizabeth Avenue            Clinton Avenue      West Runyon Avenue
Frelinghuysen Avenue            Emmet Street            Wright Street      
Avon Avenue                  South 20th Street      Somerset Street      
Central Avenue                  Fairmont Avenue      16th Street
Mount Vernon                  Stuyvesant Avenue      The Irvington Line
Mount Vernon                  Eastern Parkway      Kerrigan Boulevard                  
18th Avenue                  Melrose Avenue      Sandford Avenue
Broadway                  3rd Avenue            Van Wagenen Street
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This Ordinance Amends- Title 8, Chapter 12, Section 6A  Hours of Operation  of the Revised
Ordinances of the City of Newark, County of Essex, New Jersey